I mean I absolutely want it but also understand your apprehension.

I mean imagine every person having a personal assistant in their pocket who can draft emails on your behalf based on other emails in your inbox, remind you of things without actually creating a reminder, fill out forms for you, answer texts for you, write software for you, create automations for you, etc. etc. I mean the possibilities are endless for increased productivity.

On the other hand, in order to do those things, they have to have access to just about everything, which is scary to me, personally. But I think the vast majority have made it clear they don’t give a single shit about privacy.

This is so fucking stupid. All Gemini (and every other LLM) does is find info on the internet and regurgitate it back to you. The LLM part just does it’s best to narrow it down to the specific answer you’re looking for much more quickly and summarize it. It has no way to disseminate fact from fiction.

Same goes for the Google search engine. Does it suck? Yes. Is it worse than it used to be? Yes. Is that Google’s fault? Not necessarily, it’s moreso the rise of AI just uploading mountains of bullshit to the internet. Every other search engine has the same problems.

Although I am in no way advocating for the use of Google search…

Destiny 1 was the first game that I can recall being shit on day 1. 10 years ago. Clearly Bungie had their hand forced after recently being acquired by Activision and forced to deliver a broken product.

It was also the first game I played that was almost completely unplayable without researching shit on the internet.

And it just got worse and worse as time went on. Eventually I got tired of constantly having to figure out how to play it over and over. I just wanted to play.

a daily check is enough for most

Yeah I have to strongly disagree.

And then the opsec angle comes into play:

Which is why Proton’s notifications have been encrypted for years.

Sounds typical. Pretend to care while gov is standing on their necks. Forget about it as soon as they turn around.

…I mean for the bulk of apps, sure. For email though?

The quality of Reddit has been declining for the last ~5 years. Even if you ignore all the shady shit Reddit themselves have done, the platform has been declining due to simple popularity. Simple-brained people joining and upvoting memes and reposts and fucking TikToks. There’s also just the toxicity of society in general. There used to be honest discussions and nuance and input from industry experts. Now it’s incredibly corporate, and hardcore liberal, and full of the same toxicity as Twitter.

It used to be mostly Libertarians and Atheists, kinda like how Lemmy is all sysadmins and Linux enthusiasts.

…do you really think they’ve spent all this time creating a new browser that just has a setting enabled?

No you can’t.

Autocorrect 😛

That’s what I was referring to about versatility

Pretty much all browsers are. Unfortunately Chrome holds the vast majority of users and websites are built for Chrome (and Safari but I’m sure as fuck not throwing buckets at Apple for their disposable and proprietary trash).

Don’t really need to read it.

tl;dr ad-blockers are built into the browser itself so MV3 has no adverse effect on it.

I think most of us moved on to x86 by now.

Price of ARM chips has gone up. Price of x86 has come down. x86 comes with a small energy penalty for a huge boost in speed. Also just a more versatile architecture, since most servers run x86.

Get an app that does one thing very well rather than a mega app that tries to do everything.

I agree. I am not a fan of Nextcloud. Moved to OwnCloud a while back. No ragrets.

You’re literally lying about how default settings work. Everyone knows how they work. Who do you think you’re fooling with your bad lying? ROFLCOPTER

I also don’t think LTT ever calls anyone out about anything, ever.

…what? Have you ever watched the channel? He has entire videos dedicated to calling out a wide variety of OEMs. Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Google, MS, etc. etc.

He calls out more OEMs than any I’ve seen.

Steve of course is more thorough but LTT will complain all the livelong day.

Influencers only get paid if they do and say what the sponsor paying them wants them to do and say

I mean that is patently untrue. LTT says negative things about Nvidia on a regular basis and they still sponsor him. And Intel. And probably AMD at some point.

Other reviewers like J2C straight-up stop accepting sponsorships from companies like ASUS.

No it does not. Not after you restart the machine.

Why are you still lying?

I mean yes, but at least their Discord is externally archived/indexed and they have a Discorse Forum. None of those are my preferences but it’s better than nothing.